1877 Born in Lewiston, Maine
1892 Cleveland Institute of Art
1899 William Merritt Chase’s School of Art
1900-1904 National Academy of Design
1943 Died in Ellsworth, Maine
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Marsden Hartley: American Modern - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
Marsden Hartley and The West: The Search for an American Modernism - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2007
Marsden Hartley: American Modern - El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX
Marsden Hartley: American Modern - Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN
2006
Marsden Hartley - American Modern - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Marsden Hartley: American Modern - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Marsden Hartley : Drawings and Prints - Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
2005
Marsden Hartley: American Modern - Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Marsden Hartley - American Modern - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2004
Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity - Bates College Museum of Arts, Lewiston, ME
2003
Marsden Hartley - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Marsden Hartley : New Mexico 1918 - 1920 - Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Marsden Hartley - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
Marsden Hartley - American Modern - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Marsden Hartley : The Berlin Prints - Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
1998
Marsden Hartley: An American Modern - Newcomb Art Gallery , New Orleans, LA
1984
Marsden Hartley: The Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection - The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1980
Marsden Hartley - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1944
Marsden Hartley - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Cezanne and American Modernism - Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Selected Works by Gallery Artists - Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Pollock’s Mural and Modern Masterworks from the University of Iowa Museum of Art - Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Achieving American Art—American Art Between the Wars - Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Cézanne and Beyond - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2008
Selected Works by Gallery Artists - Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Modernidad americana. Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
Painting in the United States: 1943-1949 - Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
COMING OF AGE. Arte americana dal 1850 al 1950 - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venedig
The American Evolution - A History through Art - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
2007
Leaders in American Modernism - Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Being Where: Looking Into Landscape - University of Maine Museum of Arts - UMMA, Bangor, ME
This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Picasso and American Art - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Selected Works by Gallery Artists - Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition - Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
Art is Decor - Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
Modernisms - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Anniversary - Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Catskills to California - American Landscapes from the Collection - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
American Modernism - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings - Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2006
The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
The Taos Society of Artists, 1915-1927 - University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Coming of Age - American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Natural Moderns: Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Contemporaries - Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
The Persistence of Geometry - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Encouraging American Genius - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
A Celebration of New Works - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2005
American Moderns 1900-1950 - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Continuum : 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York - ACA Galleries, New York, NY
In the American Grain - Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, and Stieglitz - Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Villa America - American Moderns - 1900–1950 - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Gallery Selections 2005 - Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Laguna's Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The Stieglitz Circle at The Phillips Collection - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Visual Music - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
American Modern - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Modern in Europe - Featuring Selections from the Collection of Gladys and Sam Ru - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
In the American Grain - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
A Century of Collecting - Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Landscapes - Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Modern in America - Collection Insight - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
American Modernism - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Atlantica - the View from Away - Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Inaugural Exhibition - Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Modern American Masters - Highlights from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Collection - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life - DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Works - Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing as Thinking - University of Maine Museum of Arts - UMMA, Bangor, ME
2003
Beyond Native Shores: A Widening View of American Art, 1850 to 1975 - Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
Debating American Modernism - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2002
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art - 1860 - 1940 - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Routes toward Modernism - American Painting 1870 - 1950 - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
American Masters - Paintings from the Collection of the Portland Art Museum - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
Committed to Paper: The Media of American Modernism, 1900 - 1930 - Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2001
American Modernism - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Past Present Future - Notions of Time in Twentieth-Century Art - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Selected Modern Works - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Modernism & Abstraction - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
The American Land - Selections from the Addison Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2000
The First Fifty Years - Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999
American Modernism from the Stieglitz Group - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part I - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1998
Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Selections from the Wichita Art Museum and Kansas Collections - Wichita Art Museum WAM, Wichita, KS
1996
Alfred Stieglitz and Early Modern Photography - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
1995
Dictated by Life: Marsden Hartley's German Paintings and Robert Indiana's Hartley's Elegies - Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Dictated by Life - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1989
American Modernism - The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1987
The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1978
American Drawing - 1927-1977 - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1962
Geometric abstraction in America : March - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1913
Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin (closed, 1932)
International Exhibition of Modern Art - Armory of the 69th Regiment of Infantry, New York, NY